{"id":58963,"date":"2025-06-30T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T19:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58963"},"modified":"2025-06-26T19:45:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:45:35","slug":"in-pictures-53-back-in-fleet-livery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58963","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: 53 back in fleet livery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the fleet list was updated at the time, we didn\u2019t seem to mention on the news pages that there was another advert removal on the West Midlands Metro during May 2025. The tram involved in this change was <strong>53<\/strong> which lost its KFC vinyls.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>53<\/strong> had received the KFC adverts in March 2025 and they remained in place until May 2025 when they were stripped at the end of the contract. This had been the second KFC advert seen on the West Midlands Metro following on from <strong>58<\/strong> in July\/August 2024.<\/p>\n<p>This had been the first time that 53 was out of standard fleet colours.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned recently the West Midlands Metro fleet currently has two tram with adverts \u2013 <strong>36<\/strong> and <strong>58<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_58964\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/53-sp.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58964\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58964\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/53-sp-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/53-sp-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/53-sp-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/53-sp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-58964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">53 heads away from Wednesbury Great Western Street on its way into Birmingham with its plain blue livery back in full view. (Photograph by Shiv Patel, 20th June 2025)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the fleet list was updated at the time, we didn\u2019t seem to mention on the news pages that there was another advert removal on the West Midlands Metro during May 2025. The tram involved in this change was 53 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58963\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58965,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58963\/revisions\/58965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}